[19223] in bugtraq
Re: Bad PRNGs revisted in FreSSH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Laffey)
Thu Feb 15 14:16:28 2001
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 13:58:23 -0600
Reply-To: Joe Laffey <joe@LAFFEYCOMPUTER.COM>
From: Joe Laffey <joe@LAFFEYCOMPUTER.COM>
X-To: tls@REK.TJLS.COM
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On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 tls@REK.TJLS.COM wrote:
>thankfully, since just
> about everyone in the world *does* have a
> /dev/random (whatever name it's called by; this
> code is in an OS-dependent source file that has
> the appropriate name for the OS in question in it)
> just about nobody does get stuck with this.
Huh? Linux has /dev/random, many Unix OSes do not (NetBSD, MacOSX and
plenty of others.)
Now they can all use something like EGD...
Joe Laffey
LAFFEY Computer Imaging
St. Louis, MO
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